Radio is a tricky gig. There are hours price of segments to fill, and on sluggish information days, a lot of time for extemporaneously blabbering about nothing — and that’s when issues can go off the rails. That’s precisely what occurred with WEEI Radio’s The Greg Hill Show on Wednesday. During a phase on their “top five nips”, the hosts had been discussing a number of forms of onerous liquor. The matter was seemingly flowing easily till producer Chris Curtis got here in off the highest rope and interjected by saying, “I’d probably go Mina Kimes.”
Not solely was it hold-your-nose comedy, as a result of it stank so badly that no one laughed at it, however his weak try at humor was additionally an ethnic slur. For these unaware, “Nip” is a racial slur for a Japanese particular person, whereas Mina Kimes is of Korean descent. It takes some deep funding into Asian slurs to have that one sitting in your psychological financial institution, and even worse judgment to check it out on air.
In an try to mitigate the blowback, Curtis pinned his derogatory joke on a mix-up. WEEI company advised the Boston Globe’s Chad Finn that Curtis flubbed the joke by conflating “Mina Kimes” with “Mila Kunis.”
It’s uncommon you get an apology that makes issues worse, however Curtis really dipped his toe in feces twice. Slips of the tongue occur every now and then, however even the reason boggles the thoughts. I’m nonetheless attempting to determine the that means of the joke behind the excuse WEEI and Curtis spent all morning attempting to conjure up — seemingly an ill-conceived try at wordplay on “nip” as in “nipple”? But that looks as if a stretch. It was actually silly.
To spotlight the absurdity of Curtis’ excuse, Mina Kimes modified her Twitter profile pic to a headshot of Mila Kunis.
Mina Kimes seems to be taking this all in stride, however one thing tells me Mila Kunis goes to be confused the subsequent time she logs onto Twitter.